: Sunday, January 24, 2021, 9:19 PM IST
West Bengal: Jai Shri Ram row continues; TMC holds protest rallies against insult to CM Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
PTI Photo
Kolkata: As the dates for the upcoming assembly elections inch ever so closer, West Bengal is seeing new political equations and protests each successive day. A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to speak at the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose over âJai Shri Ramâ slogans being raised, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) held protest rallies across the state.
Talking to the
Free Press Journal, former TMC MP Kabir Suman, who was seen protesting in South Kolkata, said that raising political slogans during the chief ministerâs speech is a direct âinsultâ to her.
MP Speaker gifts Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee copy of Ramayana over Jai Shri Ram row Ravish Pal Singh
In light of the controversy, Pro-tem Speaker of Madhya Pradesh Assembly Rameshwar Sharma gifted a copy of the Ramayana to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, appealing her to read it carefully.
Rameshwar Sharma alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee is opposing Ram s name under pressure from Bangladesh and due to her vote bank . Everyone knows what is the current status and condition of those who opposed Lord Ram s name in the past, he said.
While speaking to India Today TV, Sharma said Did anyone have an empire bigger than Ravana? But he opposed Ram s name and everyone knows what happened to him.